The Catalan World Rally was interrupted by the 11th special test
Gus Greensmith’s Saturday was ruined by the third ek of the day. PDO
The asphalt rally in Spain was interrupted when the M-sport driver Gus Greensmith crashed into a metal railing at the edge of a steep slope. The British driver’s race went wrong with late braking.
Greensmith and Jonas Andersson were fine after the dangerous situation.
Only two cars managed to complete the 11th special test of the competition. The results of the special test are invalidated and those waiting at the starting point moved on to prepare for the next test.
Greensmith crashed out in front of a multi-headed crowd. However, the driver did not get help from the spectators, instead the civilians who arrived were more interested in taking pictures.
For example Cmore the broadcast wondered about the passivity of the Spanish viewers. The cars that came behind had difficulty passing the car stalled on Greensmith road.
– Yes, Finnish viewers would move it (the car) from there. There is enough of a crowd there that someone would take the cell phone out of their hand, move to the corner of the bumper and jerk it two meters to the side of the outer railing, so that other cars could safely pass by, so this thing would be running, expert Jari Ketomaa stated bluntly.
– But there are now too many people taking selfies.
The situation seen was discussed on Twitter as well.
– Yes, those Spaniards are useless, one person tweeted.
– For Spanish viewers, selfies and pictures of a wrecked car are more important than moving the car even a little to the side, comments Antti.
Four more special tests will be run on Saturday. Kalle Rovanperä is second at 9.7 seconds of Sebastien Ogier.